Scientist Pavel Sedikh builds his own spacecraft in the Soviet space institute in Moscow, and accompanied by a female astronaut and a boy, he embarks on for the first human trip to the Moon.
Destination Moon (1950)
Although perhaps best known for producing a number of classic sci-fi films (When Worlds Collide, The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine) George Pal started off his Hollywood feature film career with a serious attempt to portray a journey to the Moon in as realistic a manner as possible.